{"title":"The Shins","description":"\u003cp\u003eShop The Shins on vinyl and CD at Tower Records: Oh, Inverted World, Chutes Too Narrow, Wincing the Night Away and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Mercer's melodic indie pop.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-shins-wincing-the-night-away","title":"The Shins: Wincing the Night Away - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWincing the Night Away\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Shins\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSub Pop\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e098787070514\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eIndie Rock\/Pop\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2007-01-23\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Their third album is the sound of a band growing up and out. James Mercer's infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, but on various songs he also channels a Morrissey vibe, pairs a hip-hop beat with lush melodic lines and searing guitars, toys with tweaked-out piano steeped in psychedelic strings, utilizes fractured synth samples, adds gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards that cloak thunderous anthems, and even takes cues from early Jesus And Mary Chain sweeping, fuzz-toned epics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Sleeping Lessons \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Australia \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Pam Berry \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Phantom Limb \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Sealegs \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Red Rabbits \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Turn on Me \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Black Wave \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Spilt Needles \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Girl Sailor \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Comet Appears\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Shins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32070925189191,"sku":"12000739","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/1017650.jpg?v=1747333461"},{"product_id":"the-shins-port-of-morrow","title":"The Shins: Port of Morrow - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePort of Morrow\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Shins\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSony\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e886919267013\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eIndie Rock\/Pop\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2012-03-20\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         The Shins are the Indie rock band fronted by James Mercer. 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Wincing the Night Away is a Whole new animal. It's is the sound of a band growing up and out. Mercer's infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, and unfaltering. But anything can happen around it - and in this case, it does. Channeling a Morrissey vibe, 'Sea Legs' pairs a hip-hop (yes, hip-hop) beat with lush melodic lines and searing guitars. Elsewhere the band toys with tweaked-out piano steeped in psychedelic strings ('Red Rabbit'); fractured synth samples ('Silt Needles')' gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards cloaking thunderous anthems (Sleeping Lessons')' and, taking cues from early Jesus and Mary Chain albums - Seeping, fuzztoned epics ('Phantom Limb'). 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In contrast to 2012's Port of Morrow, which debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 and was nominated for a Best Alternative Album Grammy, Heartworms ushers in a return to the handmade. Heartworms is, as always, entirely written by James Mercer, with exception of So Now What (produced by band member Richard Swift). Heartworms is the first Shins album to be self-produced by Mercer since Oh, Inverted World in 2001. Heartworms features Mercer's most diverse lyrical palette to date. The result is a cohesive, yet genre defying album marked by Mercer's distinct voice and melodic composition. Unified by his singular vision, Mercer creates a sound that is both familiar a nostalgic nod to the album's predecessors - and distinctly new. 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The Worms Heart is a complete re-work of The Shins critically acclaimed March, 2017 album Heartworms. The album offers new reworked versions of the Heartworms album original tracks, and the sequence is flipped as well. When James Mercer wrote, produced, and recorded the Heartworms album, he had this desire for an alternate version, an opposite version. The album's slow songs would be flipped and re-recorded as fast songs, and vice versa. The reasoning was to showcase the versatility and strength of his songwriting, and the result is The Worm's Heart. 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The classic tunes get new life by way of a full remastering job under band leader James Mercer's watchful eye, the art is given a little extra zest via a die-cut jacket and a classy inner sleeve, and the package is rounded off with a big ol' booklet with vintage photos, handwritten lyrics, and more. The music, of course, is obviously essential. Aside from a friendly reminder that this is the album with the smash hit New Slang, as heard in the hit movie Garden State, we just need to note that the remastering job truly makes this the album James Mercer always wanted it to be. Never quite satisfied with the sonics of the original, Mercer took the 20th anniversary of the album as his opportunity to finally set the (literal!) record straight. 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